Ranging from gauzy electro to postmodernist art pop to heavy-gauge EDM—sometimes all in one song—Claire Boucher is a masterful shape-shifter. No matter the style, the music she records as Grimes is supercharged with thrilling tension: Bright melodies dance across ominous electronic beats, and influences from different eras spark as they collide. At the center of it all is her inimitable voice, looped and layered in playful, urgent, and otherworldly ways. Original, uncompromising, and unpredictable, her music is a candy-colored ode to self-empowerment.